Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheered speeches by a glittering array of bigwigs, including General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest J. King, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley. They also heard A.F. of L. President William Green, who stoutly defended organized labor's no-strike record...
Moneyed Man. After college Fadiman taught high-school English (1925-27), then became a manuscript reader for Simon & Schuster, book publishers. Soon he was editor-in-chief. In 1933, still hanging on to an S & S editorial job, he joined the New Yorker. Naturally a fast reader, he became even faster after zipping through Walter B. Pitkin's The Art of Rapid Reading. By wolfing his fact and fiction, he had time left for a score or more of profitable extracurricular ventures...
...novel: Equinox (Allan Seager; Simon & Schuster; $2.75). The theme: platonic psychological incest...
...trucks, tanks, jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When, at the last moment, it looked as if the tour would fall through, Hope wired Lieut. General Simon B. Buckner: WE SING, DANCE, TELL STORIES; HAVE TUXEDOS; WILL TRAVEL; CAN WE PLAY YOUR CIRCUIT? They played it straight through to tiny posts in the Aleutians where men almost never get leave...
...memory of a bloodily crushed strike eight months ago raised an uproar last week in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies. The strike was that of Tin King Simon I. Patino's miners (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942); the uproar came when leaders of Bolivia's extremist parties accused the Government of responsibility for the bloodshed that followed Army intervention.* Under the barrage of criticism, President Enrique Penaranda's nine-man Cabinet resigned...